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| Polyglot2005 Senior Member United States Joined 7188 days ago 184 posts - 185 votes  Speaks: English* Studies: Spanish | Message 49 of 237 21 March 2005 at 12:50am | IP Logged |
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File transfers could be made through instant messenger programs too. Although this might not be the best method. Edited by Polyglot2005 on 21 March 2005 at 2:48am 1 person has voted this message useful | |
| Bradley Groupie United States Joined 7223 days ago 55 posts - 56 votes Speaks: English* Studies: Spanish | Message 50 of 237 21 March 2005 at 10:12pm | IP Logged |
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I assume this type of file sharing would be similar to the music file sharing. Both are trying to sell their product for profit and I assume FSI has legal rights to distribute their product and to restrict others from giving this out. Though I am more liberal on the side of file sharing, it is just something Francois you should check into, becuase I know you would not have the intention to violate any laws, if it would anyways??? Of course, the main controversy was just here in the states if I am correct? I'm not sure what the laws are in other countries around the world, so it may not be of any legal concern considering you live in Switzerland, but I am ignorant on this topic. But I would assume it would not take the precedent that the large music industry did.
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| administrator Hexaglot Forum Admin Switzerland FXcuisine.com Joined 7376 days ago 3094 posts - 2987 votes 12 sounds Speaks: French*, EnglishC2, German, Italian, Spanish, Russian Personal Language Map | Message 51 of 237 22 March 2005 at 12:17am | IP Logged |
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FSI programs are not copyrighted at all. This does not apply to derived material made by publishers who repackage those programs. Thanks for your concern.
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| heartburn Senior Member United States Joined 7207 days ago 355 posts - 350 votes Speaks: English* Studies: Spanish | Message 52 of 237 22 March 2005 at 1:55am | IP Logged |
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The FSI Programs are one of the few truly good things on which US taxpayers' dollars have been spent. As such, they are owned and generously shared by the people of the US. Now if they'd only fix that godforsaken bent traffic light shining in my bedroom window....
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| Bradley Groupie United States Joined 7223 days ago 55 posts - 56 votes Speaks: English* Studies: Spanish | Message 53 of 237 22 March 2005 at 8:46am | IP Logged |
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Yes you're right, I forgot they were produced by our government. My mistake, I was just thinking since private people were selling them that there may have been a chance. Good call, just looking out for the site.
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| delectric Diglot Senior Member China Joined 7181 days ago 608 posts - 733 votes Speaks: English*, Mandarin Studies: German | Message 54 of 237 29 March 2005 at 4:13am | IP Logged |
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Correct me if i'm wrong but can't you get the digitized FSI French and Spanish books from here;
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| arnz Newbie United States Joined 7205 days ago 38 posts - 44 votes | Message 55 of 237 29 March 2005 at 5:10am | IP Logged |
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Hey delectric, I can't get into that link you gave, it asks for a user name and password. By the way, what website is that?
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| zack Tetraglot Senior Member United States Joined 7209 days ago 122 posts - 127 votes Speaks: German*, English, Spanish, French Studies: Mandarin | Message 56 of 237 29 March 2005 at 6:16am | IP Logged |
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[My apologies. I tried to download the files mentioned but apparently they have been removed. I couldn't delete this post just edit, so please disregard.]
arnz: Many years ago I looked that website (they announced over 5 years ago, and still do now, that they would would `soon' offer several Headstart programs ...). To access the textbook, you need to send them an e-mail. An automatic responder will send you the user-name and password. Below is an excerpt from their site. I'm not sure whether these are the texts to go with the latest FSI programmatic French and Spanish (they could be from a previous installment of the courses). But if they are, we can save ourselves the labor of scanning these texts. ================================================= From http://www.tlwh.com/basic_courses.html (To check out the texts for our course, just send a blank Email to our autoresponder at french-info@tlwh.com You will automatically receive an Email response telling you where to go to view the texts. AOL users who can't send a blank Email, put "French" in the subject and body of the message. Important! When you send a blank Email to our autoresponder, the information you need to view the texts will be immediately sent to you. This entire process is handled by a "mailbot" and no human intervention takes place, so please DO NOT include any correspondence in your message because we won't see it! Please address all comments, questions and other types of correspondence to: info@tlwh.com Edited by zack on 29 March 2005 at 6:20am 1 person has voted this message useful |
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